I heard today that not breastfeeding can cause distortions in the baby's mouth and jaw. This sounds like nonsense to me but the amount I know about breastfeeding can adequately be summed up by the phrase "bugger all" Twitter, what's your verdict?
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See research by Donna Geddes.
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I feel like it would be hard to see up a breastfeeding intervention ethically?
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Maybe not breastfeeding per se, but you could test the success of an intervention aimed at getting more women to breastfeed
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Cultural assumptions shape scientific questions. Breastfeeding is the human evolutionary, cross-cultural, and historical norm. Anthropologists can help understand how transformations in WEIRD societies have set up bottle-feeding w/ BMS as the baseline for scientific research.
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Addendum after a quick skim of what others wrote: risk-related phrasing matters. There’s a big difference between “breastfeeding reduces risk of malocclusion” and “formula feeding increases risk of mouth distortions,” esp given limitations/confounded if observational studies.
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